This is what the social safety net could look like for on-demand workers
And then there are those, like the conservative R Street Institute, that want to to create a “safe harbor” for on-demand companies to experiment with offering employment-like benefits without having to convert their workers over to employee status — essentially freeing them from regulation entirely.“We believe employer-employee relations should be defined by individual contract, rather that relying on statutory, regulatory and common law definitions,” writes the Institute’s director Ian Adams.
